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HCL Connections Ideas Portal

Welcome to the HCL Connections Product Ideas Lab! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by the HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.

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Improve & speedup development with the community by making Connections Open Source

Sadly, the progress of Connections seems to be still slowly. One of the reasons is that CNX is proprietary software, traditionally developed by the owning company (HCL). Why don't you open source it on GitHub or GitLab and take the power of the co...
about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 4 No Plans to Implement

Let every app run on a rasperry pi, as promised

2017 Jason Roy Gary announced "The future is pink": https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/IBM-Connections-6-Die-Zukunft-ist-Pink-3672015.html Where he promised that every component should run on a raspberry pi. Since java is avaliable for ARM, t...
about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Enable "DocuSign" in Connections

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about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 Under Consideration

Allow remove and re-assign ALL users content to someone else by one click

The scenario of interest is how to reassign user content after they have left the company/organization. This means how can we change the content ownership such as files, communities, wikis, blogs, forums, etc. by one click. Allow to re-assign info...
about 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Support MS SQL for surveys

As of today, every other application in Connections supports MS SQL Server but surveys. Here we have just for surveys a single db2 installation on a Server. Every other application runs on MS SQL except surveys. Also, for future releases i am sure...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Possibility to increase amount of stories/entries in daily and weekly newsletters/digest to at least 50 entries

What is the requirement: Make it possible to define at least 50 stories within the email newsletters/digest in Connections when using the new layout which came with CNX 6.0 Why should it be implemented: It shows too less information for our users ...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Future Consideration

Editor "Mode"

Some users would like to have a dedicated Editor mode. On Wikis, Blogs, ICEC Pages, basically all Connections Applications and Pages where they have editor access, the buttons like "Edit" should be hidden. Only when the users activate die "Edit" f...
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Search loading issue in Connections 6.5 - Files & Profiles

Hello, Search is not working on the Connections 6.5 - Files and profiles. I've raised ticket and came to know that this is known issue in Files and Profiles. Kindly look into the issue.
almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 No Plans to Implement

Search should be clever and more fuzzy (especially with german words)

When I search something in Connections the search is not fuzzy and clever enough to consider e.g. the singular and plural form of a word. E.g. when we search for "startmoment" it gives different results than when we search for "startmomente" (the ...
almost 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Under Consideration

Fix JS errors from external users invite system

A vanilla CNX 6.5 installation throws JS errors: XML Parsing Error: not well-formedLocation: https://cnx65.internal/selfservice/acl/inviteLine Number 1, Column 1: The mentioned url returns the following JSON: {"access":false} So something is wr...
about 4 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 0 Needs Review